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Kristof: The nation will pay if Trump fires Mueller

President Donald Trump resembles a Geiger counter: When he emits increasing howls, he is signaling that we’re approaching some radioactive or explosive truth. Trump is said to be ...

DATE: Apr 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: Choosing animals over people

BAYANGA, Central African Republic — The cutest primates on earth may be Inguka and Inganda, gorilla toddler twins who playfully tumble over each other here in the vast Dzanga Sangha rain for...

DATE: Apr 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: The rise of God’s spokeswomen

Ever since Eve bit into an apple in the Garden of Eden, God has been rough on women. Or, more precisely, the men who claim to speak on behalf of God have routinely disparaged wome...

DATE: Apr 3, 2018 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: Conflict is more profitable than peace

BAYANGA, Central African Republic — Perhaps the most devastating blow any human can suffer is to lose a child, and Julienne Moada has already lost three. A Pygmy living on the edge of the ju...

DATE: Mar 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: A parable of self-destruction

EASTER ISLAND – This remote speck in the South Pacific is famous for its colossal stone statues, nearly 1,000 of them towering over the landscape like guardians. Who built them? H...

DATE: Mar 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: Trump’s North Korea gamble

It’s infinitely better that North Korea and the United States exchange words rather than missiles. Yet President Donald Trump’s decision to meet Kim Jong Un strikes me as a danger...

DATE: Mar 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: I saw a genocide in slow motion

RAKHINE STATE, Myanmar – Sono Wara spent the day crying. And even after her tear ducts emptied, her shirt was still wet from leaking milk. Her newborn twins had died the previous ...

DATE: Mar 6, 2018 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: What poisons are in your body?

Before I tell you about my urine, let me stress that it should have been clean. Almost a decade ago, I was shaken by my reporting on a class of toxic chemicals called endocrine di...

DATE: Feb 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: You’re wrong! I’m right!

We live in two Americas. In one America, a mentally unstable president selected partly by Russia lies daily and stirs up bigotry that tears our social fabric. In anothe...

DATE: Feb 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: President Trump, how is this man a danger?

President Donald Trump suggests that the aim of his crackdown on immigrants is to “defend Americans” from “savage,” “worst of the worst” intruders who kill Americans or at least are “dangero...

DATE: Feb 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: Woody Allen meets #MeToo

Four years ago, when Woody Allen was given a lifetime achievement award by the Golden Globes, Dylan Farrow curled up in a ball on her bed, crying hysterically. Then she wrote an open letter ...

DATE: Feb 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Kristof: Trump leads the world, backward

DAVOS, Switzerland — President Donald Trump didn’t say how delighted he was to be in Sweden, he didn’t call any countries s-holes, he didn’t threaten to “totally destroy” another nation, and...

DATE: Jan 30, 2018 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof